Today marks the birth of the keyboard genius, James Booker. Check out the Booker documentary to learn more about the amazing character that was Booker.
Karl Friston on embodied cognition
The software failed that day and I was stuck in the scanner for at least an hour or so. Not a pleasant experience — very claustrophobic.
Cosmos + Taxis 9: 11+12
A Book About Nothing?: A Review of Theology and Geometry
Michael Oakeshott: born 120 years ago
For those who’ve never heard Oakeshott, here is his 1948 BBC talk on the philosophy of history. Below is the first page of Experience and its Modes in Oakeshott’s hand.
Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human
My chum and sometime collaborator has this new book out.
Oakeshott’s Skepticism, Politics, and Aesthetics
The Opium of the Intellectuals
Ted Lewis: Engineering Hall of Fame
I’m chuffed to learn of my collaborator Ted Lewis’ recognition — see here. Very much taken by his superb Network Science: Theory and Applications I made contact. Our shared interest in stigmergy found voice in a couple of joint projects: Human-Human Stigmergy and Stigmergy in the Human Domain. I was privileged to read a draft of his Book of Extremes: Why the 21st Century Isn’t Like the 20th Century recommending it for publication. I also had a great time visiting him at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Quite the career!
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